Bandwidth

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That is the amount of data(files, images, HTML documents) that can be transfered through an Internet line for a given period of time. Telephone lines have the lowest bandwidth. Fiber optics have the highest bandwidth. Bandwidth is usually measured in the number of bits that can be transmitted is a second, i.e., Mbps.

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